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...Christie’s total, up 17 per cent on last year, was boosted by 25 Surrealist works, which included the week’s top lot, René Magritte’s late “L’ami intime” (1958), hammering to little fanfare for £29mn (£33.7mn...
...In Roald Dahl’s Matilda, what is Miss Trunchbull’s first name? Whose film roles include playing L P Hartley’s Marian Maudsley, Thomas Hardy’s Bathsheba Everdene and Boris Pasternak’s Lara Antipova?...
...“I thought it was time to reintroduce it in a useful and playful way,” says Priscilla Royer, creative director at Maison Michel Paris, whose nylon bonnet Lara features cute animal ears and has been worn...
...Eager “to combine wine and literature”, Priscilla Coutinho, a former customer who made her way up to propriétaire, has started periodic wine and literary sessions at the bar....
...“I gravitated back to Chanel No 19,” says the writer Sophie Dahl, who found it both adventurous and reassuring. “I wore it occasionally as an older teenager, and my grand-mother often wore it....
...The deal follows Ferrero’s acquisition last October of Ferrara Candy, maker of Lemonheads and RedHots, from private equity firm L Catterton for about $1.3bn....
...The protests erupted after a police officer shot Keith L. Scott, an African American, on Tuesday....
...Sophie Dahl, the writer, model and modern-day Marilyn Monroe, attributes her hosiery addiction to her innate romanticism “and battle-scarred knees”....
...Why Elvis and Priscilla Presley spent their honeymoon here following their Las Vegas wedding in 1967....
...The impressive winter exhibition about political and cultural appropriation of landscape at MuCEM (the Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Mediterranée, sited on the J4 esplanade) opens with Michel...
...I feel pressure to say something really intelligent here but to be honest I have just read Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James....
...High-tech equestrian facilities – solariums, horse walkers and so on – may be a deterrent, since their ambitions are more Pony Club than Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe....
...Burberry, Ralph Lauren and L’Wren Scott have created shooting party tweeds and louche Gosford Park evening gowns, with furs and set curls to match....
...Roald Dahl, Graham Greene, C.S. Lewis and Evelyn Waugh turned down OBEs or CBEs. Artists, writers and actors were the most notable refuseniks....
...In contrast, the latest sensation of the West End, Bertie Carvel in the musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda, is just as clearly a man in a skirt, but his magnificent performance as the hammer-throwing...
...Last time I saw Sophie Dahl there. “I then move on to the Annex flea market right on 6th [Avenue], between 24th and 27th [streets]....
...Ghost stories hold the attention well - L.P. Hartley’s W.S. or J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s The Ghost of a Hand prompted talk of how the afterlife’s worst could have been avoided....
...THE MARCH by E.L....
...It is amatter treated with the utmost seriousness by chocolate aficionados such as Chloe Doutre-Roussel, Fortnum & Mason's chocolate buyer, and Priscilla Carluccio, sweet-toothed supremo of Carluccio's....
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